Versailles

BBC TWO, 9.00PM

As the second series of the salacious pre-french Revolution romp reaches its penultimate episode, Louis XIV (George Blagden) realises he is not, in fact, godlike, and seeks advice from pious Madame Scarron (Catherine Walker). Meanwhile, Madame de Montespan (Anna Brewster), the king’s maîtresse en titre, finds that desperate times call for desperate measures.